{"id":16198,"date":"2017-01-11T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=16198"},"modified":"2017-01-11T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:49:29","slug":"amplified-ale-works-goes-collab-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/01\/11\/amplified-ale-works-goes-collab-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Amplified Ale Works goes collab crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Amplified Collab Crew (left-to-right): Jeff Campbell, Cy Henley, Alex Pierson and JC Hill (also of Alvarado Street Brewery)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many are the brewers and brewery personnel whose passion for music rivals their fervor for fermentation, but when analyzing the degree to which the musical bug has sunk its teeth into an entire business, no local operation is as afflicted as Amplified Ale Works<\/strong><\/a>. From the day it opened within its Pacific Beach kebaberie home, head brewer Cy Henley <\/strong>(you might not know it, but you\u2019ve definitely shared space with him at a local live-music venue numerous times in your life) and company have driven home their love of aurally conveyed entertainment via\u00a0beer names, apparel, graphics and more. So it\u2019s no wonder that, when the estate of famed Mot\u00f6rhead<\/strong><\/a> front-man, Lemmy<\/strong>, sought a business to brew a beer commemorating the metal legend, they hit up Amplified.<\/p>\n

Brewery owner and co-founder Alex Pierson <\/strong>was approached by a licensing firm last year. At first, he wasn\u2019t 100% sold on the legitimacy of the company’s\u00a0request, but when he ventured to an L.A. hotspot to meet with an entertainment exec, and that man\u00a0was greeted with a knowing wave by star and recent Nobel laureate Bob Dylan<\/strong>, that gesture\u00a0bolstered his faith level significantly. The two came to terms quickly, leading to Born to Lose IPA, a Citra-heavy India pale ale in the mid-6% ABV (alcohol-by-volume) range that takes cues from the recipe for Amplified\u2019s Pig Nose Pale Ale. A prototype of the beer was on-tap at a Christmas Eve (its honoree’s\u00a0birthday) release-party at famous West Hollywood live-music venue and Lemmy haunt, the\u00a0Rainbow Bar & Grill<\/strong><\/a>, which now includes features a life-sized statue of Lemmy. A refined version of the beer is scheduled to come out in cans in February or March of this year, and a bourbon barrel-aged version of Amplified\u2019s Belgian-style quadrupel is aging in bourbon barrels, waiting for its own Christmas Eve coming-out party later this year and a date with a bottling machine. That creation will be called Ace of Spades.<\/p>\n

On the reunion tour front, Henley, Pierson and director of brewery operations Jeff Campbell<\/strong> spent a day collaborating at their Miramar brewhouse with Amplified co-founder JC Hill<\/strong>. Hill who now calls the coastal city of Monterey home and spends his time on the larger project he\u2019s since moved on to, Alvarado Street Brewery<\/strong><\/a>. The fruits of the foursome’s\u00a0enjoyable labors, Trois Cabrones (a name inspired by a\u00a0classic album by The Melvins<\/strong><\/a>), will go\u00a0on-tap at Amplified’s Miramar tasting room\u00a0tomorrow,\u00a0Thursday, January 12<\/strong>. The beer is a “hazy IPA” that had Summer and Nelson Sauvin hops added in the kettle, followed by Nelson and Mosaic in the whirlpool. It incorporates a combination of wheat, rice hulls and oats in its malt bill and was designed to smell and taste of big hops\u2026and look like custard. The quartet admits this collaboration should have happened a long time ago. In an effort to make up for lost time, the Amplified crew will travel to north the last week of this month to brew the beer again at Alvarado Street, where it will be canned as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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